Not exact matches
SAO PAULO — Brazil
ethanol producers stand to lose a big chunk of their largest market, Japan, to U.S. agribusiness, after Tokyo bent to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump and tweaked
requirements for gasoline additives.
Indeed, The New York Times reported in March that Mr. Icahn was pressing
for a change in a
requirement that refiners be held responsible
for ensuring that corn - based
ethanol is mixed into gasoline.»
EPA recently revised its cellulosic target
for 2013 from a proposed 14 million gallons of
ethanol - equivalent to a final
requirement of 6 million gallons (Greenwire, Aug. 6).
The Obama administration made a concerted effort to transform the U.S. transportation system with battery startups, regulations that ramp up the use of cellulosic
ethanol and other biofuels, and a near doubling of fuel efficiency
requirements for light - duty cars and trucks.
In this study, we evaluate transportation impacts and infrastructure
requirements for the use of E85 (85 %
ethanol, 15 % gasoline) in light - duty vehicles using a combination of corn and cellulosic
ethanol.
The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply
for hardship exemptions from the RFS
ethanol blending
requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000 tons of biomass per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel per day.
Since 2010, under the
requirements of the bipartisan Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the EPA has been required to include a standard
for cellulosic
ethanol.
As originally proposed earlier this year, the rule called
for 14 million gallons of cellulosic
ethanol, but the final rule sets a
requirement for 6 million gallons of cellulosic
ethanol this year.
I've talked a lot about my published work in (1) carbon sequestration soil work (trees and sorghum); (2) co-firing test burns in every major type of coal technology (cyclones, pulverized coal, IGCC)
for SO2 and NOx reductions; (3)
ethanol (
for octane
requirements not using lead or MTBE).
stevepostrel — and what's wrong with a 10 % blending rate of
ethanol for octane and oxygenate
requirements?
Two ads have been running heavily in the Washington, D.C., market and in some other markets in advance of a Nov. 30 deadline
for the EPA to finalize
requirements for the total volume of
ethanol to be put into gasoline, and
for other renewable fuels.
And — as mentioned in the anti-
ethanol ad — even former Vice President Al Gore has called the federal
requirement for adding corn - based
ethanol to gasoline «a mistake.»
For example, in 2010, Opportunity Green utilized electric generators that ran off of E-Fuel100
ethanol to supplement any additional energy
requirements beyond what could be pulled from the grid.
Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used
for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February
ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008
ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February
ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «
Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February
Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).
The United States provides a range of incentives
for ethanol production including exclusion from excise taxes, mandating clean air performance
requirements that created markets
for ethanol, and tax incentives and accelerated depreciation schedules
for electricity generating equipment that burn biomass (USDOE, 2005).
Rather, the agency set
ethanol requirements higher and higher with no apparent regard
for falling U.S. gasoline consumption, allowing the RFS to drive the country headlong toward the «
ethanol blend wall» — and potential harms from forcing more
ethanol into the fuel supply than it can safely absorb.
That's what we draw from EPA's
requirements for levels of corn
ethanol and other renewable fuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supply.
The agency is currently working on regulations
for the oil and gas sector, and is finalizing new annual regulations
for the nation's
ethanol mandate and renewable fuel blending
requirements.
Greco said API asked EPA to set the volume
requirements no higher than 9.7 percent of gasoline demand to help avoid the blend wall and to protect strong consumer demand
for ethanol - free fuel.
For the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), that means aligning
ethanol volume
requirements with market realities.
With EPA last week proposing
ethanol - use
requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the
ethanol industry no doubt will keep lobbying to foist increasing amounts of higher -
ethanol blend fuels like E15 and E85 on the motoring public.